£600 - £800
POTTER, Helen Beatrix. Autograph letter, signed (Beatrix Heelis) to Elizabeth Tyson. Castle Cottage, Sawrey, December 15 1933. Unpublished and unrecorded.
Bifolium (15 x 22.5cm), paper watermarked Hieratica Bond British Make J S & Co Ltd, 2 pages, creased where folded, a couple of small spots of foxing and slightly age toned
A friendly, discursive letter to the local antique dealer about old china and the new year
"I took your baskets this morning to Mr Stubbs'* fish shop and I enclose cheque. The china has been a pleasure to me during some very dismal weather - the desk I have scarcely seen as it is across at Hill Top & I have been mainly indoors, though feeling much better. Some day in the new year I shall come & consider specimens of Spode. I have now got quite a good assortment of jugs. The farmer's arms is very like my other, yellow ground, jug, but the engraving and mottos are different. You have some lovely china. I shall value and take great care of the two handled mug."
*Harry Stubbs (1894-1973), Fishmonger of Ambleside
Provenance: Elizabeth Tyson (1878-1970) thence by descent in her extended family to the present vendor
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